Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis maintain that the fedayeen have not managed to penetrate deeply and in strength, nor have they been able to win over the bulk of the 944,000 Arabs living on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Good intelligence and highly sophisticated, hard-hitting defense tactics stop most guerrilla activity on the perimeter of the Israeli heartland. Harsh retaliation by frequent air and artillery and occasional ground strikes has pushed fedayeen bases away from the 1967 borders. Sabotage and terrorism have dwindled in recent months. The Gaza Strip, that beehive of Palestine nationalism, is as quiet...
...equally hard blow, Chile requested that Rockefeller's visit there be canceled. Again, like Caldera, President Eduardo Frei Montalva, a friend of the U.S., was influenced by threats of unrest in response to the Rockefeller visit. In any case, some Chileans felt that a visit from President Nixon's envoy would be superfluous: this week, Foreign Minister Gabriel Valdés, acting on behalf of all Latin American countries, will present the President with a common-stand position paper that proposes new foundations-particularly in the economic field-for U.S.-Latin American relations...
Coretta Scott King, L.H.D , widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. You have, as wife, as mother, as Christian woman, walked the hard road of nonviolence in fighting for human freedom...
...Beach. There was a scuffle, the girl screamed, O'Callahan fled. He was later arrested by Hawaiian civilian police, turned over to the military for prosecution and charged with housebreaking, assault and attempted rape. At a court-martial, O'Callahan was convicted and given ten years at hard labor-a penalty harsher than he could have expected from many a civilian court...
...seem that a longer season would automatically mean more income. But since every concert by every orchestra is a deficit affair, more concerts mean a larger deficit. Los Angeles has expanded its annual schedule from 37 weeks to 46 in the past three years, and the musicians are pushing hard for 52. "Sure, the schedule is murderous," says A.P.M. President Herman Kenin. "But the goal is not 52 weeks but 52 checks. The musician has to pay the mortgage on his house, educate his children and feed his wife all year, not just 40 weeks...